We have working hard since we started in September and we want to show you some of the work we have been doing.

Gaeilge-Bia

Athletics and GAA

Simon was working with us every Tuesday, helping us to be better Gaelic football players. We worked on our hand passing, kicking and team-work skills. We played lots of matches as we got better at all the skills.

​Since the beginning of the year, we have been working on our running technique. We also learnt the correct throwing technique for shot put. We did a lot of drills but as we got better at them, we squashed the time down by about 5 minutes every week. We played lots of different games such as the 'fruit game', 'flinch game', 'last runner standing' and 'dodge ball chasing'. We had great fun working with David.​-Alex

Maths

For Maths Week we explored the school and it's grounds using our 'maths eyes'. We had great fun!

Writing Reports

We wrote reports on big cats. Firstly, we read about them in our reader. Then, we picked one big cat (puma, snow leopard, leopard, jaguar, tiger, cheetah or lion) and researched about it for homework. We had to find facts about their appearance, diet, habitat and young. The whole class wrote a report each and they were between 1-3 pages long! We also did a bar chart after we wrote our reports to see which big cat was the favorite in our class. Most people picked the snow leopard and the least picked the lion or jaguar. -Rachel

Space Week!

We read a little bit of a story called’ This is not Earth’. It was about a boy who lived on another planet! We also put paper mâché around balloons and painted them to make our solar system and rockets. We also read a story called ‘Land of the Midnight Sun' in our history book. This was a legend about how countries in the Arctic circle have sunlight. We have a quick way of remembering the plants, we use the sentence 'My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Plants'.-Lucy BRocket ExperimentsIt was space week so our class did some experiments about rockets! Here are some of the experiments we did.

We did an investigation where we got some string, straw, balloons, tape and chairs and we had to figure out how to make the balloon travel from one chair to another. We put the string through the straw and attached the string to the 2 chairs. Then we blew up our balloon (it was hard!)and attached it to the straw with masking tape. Then we let go of the tail of the balloon and the balloon went from one chair to another. We then tried to see if the balloon could travel across the classroom. Watch our video below to see how we got on!

We did another experiment about rockets. We got a small container (film canister), filled it up about 2/3 with water, then put in a vitamin C tablet. We closed the lid the turn it upside down, and it took off! It was amazing! We loved it!

We read lots of books and stories about space and rockets and astronauts. We talked about Vogager I and II. It was really nice and we learned a lot.-James M

Breathing Experiment

In science this year we were learning about how we breathe. We put our hands on our heart, and counted how many times our heart beats in 30 seconds. Then we jumped up and down for 1 minute and counted again and most of us got higher numbers!

We also learnt about why we breathe and how we breathe. First we learnt about our lungs and how important they are. Without our nose our lungs wouldn’t survive. What I mean is, when we breathe in our nose there is a sticky substance called mucus which stops all the dirt out in the air from getting into our lungs. The little hairs in our nose also clean the air before it gets to our lungs so our lungs don’t get filled with dirt. But for the air to even get to our lungs it has to go down our windpipe. Our windpipe is a long bumpy thing. If you feel the back of your neck you can probably feel it. At the bottom of your windpipe, it separates into two branches, each branch is called a bronchus

We all really enjoyed learning about breathing this year!!!!!!!!!!​-Alana